Chicago City Hall. Undaunted by a colleague’s warning that reparations must come first, an influential aldermen is forging ahead with an ordinance establishing the parameters to bring a $30 million universal basic income program to Chicago.
Last month, a seemingly harmless resolution calling for the city to use $30 million of the $1.9 billion avalanche of federal relief funds headed to Chicago to launch a guaranteed income pilot turned into an emotional debate about reparations.
Ald. Jason Ervin (28th), chairman of the City Council’s Black Caucus, said then that it would be a “slap in the face” to African-Americans who have […]
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